Just starting to pick up Perl...

I am a beginner with Perl and scripting, however I am really interested in picking up and learning and understanding how to program in Perl. If any expert could help and give me steps on what it takes to go from beginner, to intermediate to expert with the Perl Programming language. What books, tutorials, websites or any other type of advice would be greatly apprecicated. I work in a unix/linux environment so practicing is not a problem I just dont know where to start to learn this intense language.
Thanks & Many Blessings

I am in a similar position as you just trying to learn Perl. The O'Reilly books are an excellent source to learn and get the fundamentals down. It is challenging when starting out, you are trying to come up with ideas so you have something to write. If you haven't already, start up writing administrative scripts parsing data and sending emails and then progress into it deeper.